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On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 04:41 +0000, Duncan wrote: |
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> YMMV on this as I'm a KDE power user and as a result, dislike GNOME's |
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> crippled options with a passion, but I'd suggest checking dbus. It |
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> sounds like the dbus messages aren't getting thru telling the app over |
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> which the mouse is hovering that it's there. |
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Hey, Duncan, |
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I posted to this list yesterday, but in the fatigue-induced fog in which |
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was operating I probably put in the wrong from address and the email got |
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trashed by the list server. |
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A switch and switch back of window managers, plus a restart of the user |
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account solved the problem - kind of a Linux equivalent of Microsoft's |
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"three R's" technique. |
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I generally agree with you these days about Gnome vs. KDE. It used to |
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be that Gnome had an edge on really creative and abundant software |
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design, which is why I settled on it, but with the switch to GTK2 a lot |
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of really nice features in a lot of apps got dropped and other stuff |
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just got abandoned. I've played a little bit with programming for |
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Gnome. The Gobject pseudo-OO framework is an abomination and the API is |
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pretty messy. KDE just uses plain old C++, which is plenty adequate. |
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KDE packages that I've used on my Gnome desktop, notably k3b for CD and |
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music work, is really solid and feature-rich without being overloaded |
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with cruft. I'm really attached to galeon as a browser, but am |
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switching to firefox for web development, which will run on both Gnome |
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and KDE. Maybe it's time to revisit KDE. |
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